Letters to the Editor
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@ SocandTwigs
I invite you to read my post again. I'm not voting for Hillary just because she's a woman. She's the most experienced, best-prepared, hands-on candidate. That's my opinion.
I enjoy a good speech as much as anyone, but then again, I also enjoy cotton candy. However, both leave me hungry after a while.
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There is more to this than being a bigot or a bigotte...
Let us stop the name calling which betrays only ourselves. Have heard too many get away with a despicable level of backhanded bias achieved because they are among the current protected species of the humankind. Our constitution recognizes only native born or not for who can be President. Otherwise it is wide open. If you want only "my kind now..because I deserve it!", you will inherit what you deserve - a masked person who mimics your wants. This is the realm of the charlatans and their .... well you can fill it. I would submit that the current administration, and its staff in the Congress, is an example of what one will receive if one chases their charlatan. I will go with Obama because he is a person who speaks and writes of the people who pass along the way in his journey from Jerusalem to Jericho and he encourages people to, like the Samaritan, join him and cross to the other side of the road that is not taken by the priest and Levite.
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Super
Welcome to New York, Tom Brady. Here's your perfect season -- right here.
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Well, there's experience and "experience"
If one holds a job for a period of time then merely by grace of occupying the position one can be said to be "experienced" in that area. But it takes closer examination to determine whether that "experience" translates to expertise.
One such "experienced" candidate has been wrong on Iraq, wrong on Iran, wrong on the Patriot Act, wrong on bankruptcy law, wrong on special interest monies and has been part and parcel of the spineless, ineffectual eunuchs who have heretofore been unable to stand up to the worst President in the history of the Republic on, well, any issue of note.
Such "experience" however has allowed for an artful mendacity in response to questions about the vote for war in Iraq. I don't believe that such "experience" deserves to be rewarded any further than it already has.
Such "experience" has driven our fair Republic and our once strong, vigorous party, to the sorry, shabby state in which we find it today. Enough is enough.
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Endorsements
Endorsements and other kinds of support by the Kennedys, Oprah and other celebrities is just that: celebrity promotion. They are free to do so and can have their own cameras recording their intervention. Every candidate does that so let us not be selective about criticising anyone. None of the endorsers are perfect: the Kennedys?? Oprah in South Africa? They're human, they search for the spotlight and in the end they will not matter.
It will be Clinton or Obama: I will support the Democratic nominee. I will vote for a fallible human being, not some one dressed up as a saint. And I don't need a celebrity to do my thinking for me.
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As a pink-hued unprogressive hermaphrodite, I watched the Rocky Horror Show
All that grinning, especially from Maria Shriver, was frightening. Maria's gaunt face and overdone "smile" which looked like a rictus gave me the creeps. Cheesiness with a touch of Edgar Alan Poe is a special combination. It's all about the futur not the past, is it? This is just more jiggerypokery when two undistinguished females, Maria and Caroline Whatshername, seek THEIR moment in the sun by trading on the name of a lon-dead President.
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Boys May Come And Boys May Go
And that's all right you see
Experience has made me a bitch
And now they're after me.
Cause everybody's living in a material world
And Hillary's a material girl.
Living in a material world
And Hillary's a material girl.
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Hillary's problem
I like Hillary and will vote for her if nominated. But I'm supporting Obama in the primaries because he's bright, thoughtful and independent.
I'm also offended by Bill's current and past behavior. His sleazy comments about Obama detract from his wife's qualifications and competence. I also get a little unsettled with him behaving as assistant president in waiting and can't forget his past behavior. He was a more than adequate president, in part because of his policy and in part because of an accident of history. Given his baggage he wasn't so good that he can front his wife's campaign.
She needs to run a campaign in which Bill is running his Foundation and she is running the campaign.
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I don't get it!
I do not understand why the O network should have influence and/or is trying to influence national policy. I think there may be something to the premise that Oprah does not want another American woman to have more influence or be more powerful than her. Where is the attention on the Kennedy supporting Clinton? Commercials are run in NY all the time, yet no national attention.
Obama is admittedly a decent looking guy that is a pretty decent wordsmith and/or has good ghost writers. Until I researched Obama, I was undecided as to Hillary v. Obama. I am now decidedly in support of Hillary. I could not find any substance behind Obama.
Even during the last debate, his focus was on quips not substantive dialogue. His days as a poet at Occidental College which are admittedly a hazy time for him seem to be serving him well with the general population. But, it is curious to me that he has the same platform running for President of the U.S. that he had when he ran for Harvard Law Review President. 17 years with no results. What support is there that he can do anything he says he will do during the campaign with only 4 years to do it? He unabashedly discussed with reporters 17 years ago that his career goal was to run for office. He is good at meeting personal goals, but what about the greater good. His efforts since Harvard have simply been as a stepping stone for higher office. Even 17 years ago, fellow students questioned his commitment to the issues he espoused (according to newspaper articles from that time).
Obama says it is important to be right Day 1. You have to be willing to make the hard decisions in order to be right. Obama has played a game of evasiveness on controversial votes and instead of being decisive he opted not to vote. Not to be disrespectful, but President Carter had a problem with being decisive.
Finally, Obama reminds me of Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans. Mayor Nagin ran for office the first time as a change agent, and was dubbed "Ray Reagan." Nagin brought people together until there was a crisis. Nagin had no leadership skills during a crisis -- Hurricane Katrina -- and he was reduced to crying out curse words. If I am right and Obama and Nagin are similar, I do not want him as Commander in Chief given the international climate and potential risks to Americans at home and abroad.